DBA First Crusade project

[d_Guy]

A possible Schrödinger's cat sort of thing. Until Monday when the bag is opened they are both there and not there.

[paulr]

The added worry is there a multiple offices around the country, I hope they sent it to the right PO Box

[paulr]

They got the right PO Box

I got an email from reception at 8:15 this morning saying I had a parcel and popped down to collect it 

Now I just have to resist the temptation of opening the box until I get home tonight 

[FierceKitty]

Order a te deum at once. Fireworks. Royal progression. Have your favourite mistress send over. You get the idea.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Just a quiet night in for you FK?

[paulr]

I managed to last about 3 hours before I carefully cut the tape and opened the box to have a look

Shiny 

Will be interesting to see how they paint up ... After I finish the last lot of my 1917 project
No harm in sorting them out tonight...

[d_Guy]

"...and now his watch has ended" 

[FierceKitty]

Order a te deum at once. Fireworks. Royal progression. Have your favourite mistress send over. You get the idea.

sent

[paulr]

Sorted through the order last night, a couple of figures missing

Fortunately from two different packs both for units that will be based 8 figures per base, so hiding the missing figures will not be too hard 

Five extra figures, fortunately all in one pack that will be based 5 per base

Pierre the Shy's figures are all present and correct, he added a few WWI Belgians to my order to save on postage

[paulr]

Spent over four hours sorting all the figures into the different troop types in each army

I need to finish my 1917 project so I can start painting these

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Four hours! How big is this project?
actually, after seeing your amazing WWI projects, that's a silly question! Let's go with, how many units?

[pierre the shy]

Four hours! How big is this project?
actually, after seeing your amazing WWI projects, that's a silly question! Let's go with, how many units?

Bigger than Ben Hur? Almost  

IIRC Paul is looking at producing 6 DBA arrmies related to the First Crusade plus extra units to allow them to field any unit in their respective DBA v3 army list.

Details are in this link: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,14479.0.html

[paulr]

Four hours! How big is this project?
actually, after seeing your amazing WWI projects, that's a silly question! Let's go with, how many units?

Pierre the Shy is correct, 6 DBA armies for the First Crusade. I've got all the elements in each army plus a few extras to allow me to field two Armenian and Early Crusader armies and also to convert the Early Crusader army to Later Crusader

III/66 Fatimid Egyptian 22 elements 128 figures
III/74b Other Seljuq Turkish 21 elements 77 figures
IV/1a Komnenan Byzantine 21 elements 87 figures
IV/2 Cilician Armenian 27 elements 139 figures - added 3 elements to field two armies
IV/6a Syrian 15 elements 55 figures
IV/7 Early Crusader 25 elements 174 figures - added 4 elements to field two armies
IV/17 Later Crusader 3 elements 16 figures - add ons to convert Early to Late Crusader army
Camps 8 elements 32 figures
Camp followers 2 elements 8 figures

144 elements 716 figures

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

  Wow!

[paulr]

With the base cost of postage from the UK it is much more efficient to place one large order than several small ones

That little lot will keep me busy for quite a while